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- Title
A Mathematician Reads the Kalam Cosmological Argument.
- Authors
Chow, Timothy Y.
- Abstract
Hilbert's Hotel Let us now turn to one of Craig's favorite arguments against the existence of an actual infinite, namely Hilbert's hotel, a thought experiment due to the German mathematician David Hilbert. However, remember that Craig wishes to argue for more than the physical impossibility of Benardete's book; he wants to argue that its impossibility does not depend on accidental features of our current best physical theories but is a general fact that must hold of all possible physical theories that we might someday deem best. When I was an undergraduate, I had an interest in Christian apologetics, and one of the books I studied was by William Lane Craig [[6]]. Craig and Sinclair not only maintain that I P i is plausibly true for physical quantities; they make the far stronger claim that HT <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mrow><mo>¬</mo><mi>P</mi></mrow></math> ht , the negation of I P i , is absurd.
- Subjects
ISLAMIC theology; MATHEMATICIANS; HOTEL rooms; ARGUMENT; ETERNITY
- Publication
Mathematical Intelligencer, 2023, Vol 45, Issue 2, p150
- ISSN
0343-6993
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00283-022-10224-8